No, I totally get ya…
Trying to get my platform going/followers following, is proving to be a total grind. Would I spend a few bucks to ease that along, knowing that the content speaks for itself? Totally. Would I do that in an ecosystem where everybody else is doing that, quality be damned? No way, because then I am just fighting money with money.
I'm not sure how you get around that one. Something about buying votes with bots just feels icky, and I know that's not necessarily rational. Like paying to promote your own tinder profile or something, feels kind of desperate, and antithetical to creative purity.
Way you are describing it, the whole thing might as well become "nationalised" and integrated into the platform as a formal component, hah? Maybe it would take a fair bit of that off 😉
Haha, it already is isn't it, the promoted tab lists posts which burn SBD, the more burned, the higher up. I totally should have used that as an example. I mean, it fits because it forces liquid external monetary value to be introduced and converted into "post value," value stuck in the system.
But yeah, the human aspect is what holds things together. True creativity would fight against the conclusion I reached, and it makes sense that it has too. Logically, this platform reaches a conclusion that does not fit with it's money-stripped purpose: creativity.
As for grinding on here, it's funny isn't it, I want to say just have fun. Luck is a big factor, but if you think you need to put in lots of effort, make sure that effort has some strange ethereal non-monetary value to you so its worth it regardless. Kinda goes against this post though lol.